Being broke and not finding a job – At least I have Steem

I've been trying to get a job... "Celestal, that's what you said 3 months ago!"

Well, that's awkward, yet also true. My plan was to get a job after New Year so I could have some money, because I'm broke. 3 months later, no job, still broke. But hey, I was in 2 interviews at least. "There's always jobs for those who want to work!" Well, maybe I just don't want it bad enough and am too selective.

I don't really mind being broke, well I do, but only because I'm worried I won't have the money to attend Steemfest 4. I would be ready to sacrifice the immediate future and live by peanuts until Steem works out the way I and many others think it will. However, Steemfest is the one short-term waypoint I don't want to miss simply because the last one was simply one of the best things ever in my life and it can tremendously help long-term as well when you have a chance to meet great minds behind different projects, to learn even more about Steem and connect with other like-minded people. Note the use of "connect" rather than network, because networking makes it sound as if going into the task of making friends is only for the purpose of monetary gains. Money might come as a result of friendships, but I don't see having it as a primary motivation being good for setting up strong long-lasting relationships.

That being said, I like how Steem has the freedom to have anyone to opt-in, no questions asked. Of course, that comes with the downside of uncertainty without steady paycheck. But job has it's downside, too: not much upsides with a stale income with more or less the same amount throughout your whole life. Sure, you might get a few percentage raises here and there every five-ten years, but it won't take you to the Moon, so to speak. With Steem, on the other hand, you have immense potential, you just gotta wait a bit to grab the marshmallow from the table. Well, with Steem there's actually no guarantee of it still being there tomorrow, but what if I said that after couple of years there is the potential for 100? "But I might lose my one if I don't take it now."

Right...

I just can't go to a job and show what I can do, but instead have to hop through hoops and loops and make an impression, essentially market myself, be the best fit for the position, because it is going to be a contract and the employee can't just decide not to pay without heavy reasoning, so they wanna make sure they get an employer who will do the best job for the money. Of course, the most competent should always do the job – wouldn't want a plumber doing a brain surgeon for me (no offence to plumbers, I appreciate you, too, for getting the water to the tap of my home), but when there's a lot of people fighting for few, essentially easy jobs, if you will, it makes for a weird dynamic. Fight of the averages. Nooo, I don't despise being average, good for you or anybody if it suits your boat, but I for myself... I don't know. Is it even possible to frame it so that I don't just seem like an unmotivated, entitled millenial? The whole job-thing just doesn't seem to be my cup of tea, maybe it would be a different story if I actually got to a good working place. Right that was the problem: I can't get into one.

"Get a formal education then!" Aaah, this one again. I won't use the "my personality isn't suited for school" card because that would be just on default an excuse for being lazy, because everyone should push their full potential... into a box. Nothing wrong with boxes either; you like the box you've decorated for yourself, good for you, seriously. Be a specialist in something if you truly think it's your calling and school can be a tool to master that.

But I'm more like a bird in a cage when it comes to boxes, I would say – a fish out of water. No, not like flying fish, but... (wait, those actually exist), enough with the metaphors, because the next thing you'd say "if fishes can grow wings, then surely they can grow legs." Sure, but that happens with the evolution between generations, and as far as I know, my consciousness will be here inside my head only for the duration of this one life. Maybe we'll be some divine spirits in the sky in afterlife, but no spirit has personally told me about his/her past human life, and even if I claimed one having done so, there's already a name for that: psychosis.

I got slightly sidetracked, but what I was saying is that Steem is pretty cool in that you can just be you, show what you do, who you are, and there are no obligations to anything. Of course, this comes with the downside of no one being obliged to give you anything either and you are not entitled just for participating. That being said, it actually doesn't mean you cannot get any traction here, you just have to actually do something and deal with some uncertainty of no guarantees. The uncertainty that perhaps you used few extra hours only to end up with no monetary compensation for your time. But that's what the majority already does on mainstream social medias so, not that big of a deal in my opinion. But if people prefer knowing they will get nothing, instead of the uncertainty of getting something, I guess why not, but it seems a bit backwards to me. Call me crazy if you will, but no spirit has talked to me, that much I can say.

But then again, uncertainty comes with great potential, not like you can make shit into gold, but you know what I mean. Obviously saying this, Steem is not the shit in the metaphor (why do I even have to explain this? I just said that "you know what I mean"), because I'm still here. Or maybe I'm just wrong because I'm shit, because I'm shit at getting a job, although I would argue that that is a bad argument, but when have the people over the internet cared about proper argumentation anyway? Only the guy who wrote the Wikipedia articles about logical fallacies...

Anyway, I like Steem, I like how informal it is (for obvious reasons), but still with great possibilities and potential.

It's nice.